The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-14
THROUGH TIE STATE.
NEwsY MOTIFS FROM EXCHANGES.
A Sad Suicide Criminal Notes -Important
Injunction Dissolved and a Number nj
OF Other Happenings Of Moro
than Local Interest,

OF Other Happenings Of Moro
than Local Interest.
Col. ]. A. Fickinger, chief engineer of
the Ohio River Railroad, has moved bis
family to Point Pleasant.
Wolves have made their appearance In
Grant county, about ten milea from Peters.
burg. on New Creek Mountain, and killed
some eheep. !
Kate Taylor, ali aged woman Of MUIR.
phys Creek, Lswls county, died from
blood poisoning, resulting from running a
splinter In her finger.
Joseph Pennell and Van Scott, two
Greenbrier county school.boys, aged
about l6, quarreled on their way home
and Scott wal seriougly stabbed by the
other.
A party Of Randolph county young men
were attacked by q large panther a few
nights since and only succeeded In driving
1t away by an active use Of clubs and
stones.
James Hogbin, n constable OF Grant
county, while riding along a road was at.
tackled by q vicious horse running at large,
and both he and his horse severely kicked
and injured. NI
An old man named Thomas Rowland
WIS run over and instantly Killed By a
freight train at Cornwallis, a station on
the Parkeraburg branch OF tho Baltimore
4 Ohio road. p
Robert White, colored, charged with
~mans!aughter, confessed his guilt and at
the recent term Of the Faye!te Circuit
Court, was sentenced to two years i'm.
prlsonment in the %penitentiary.
Robert Jack, Of Grant county, was in
the act Of telling a tree, when a limb
dropped from tho tree and struck him on
tho back OF the neck, knocking him sense
less to the ground. He is not expected to
recover. a. ,f .E 1 q
Frank Dickson, who lives in Wayne
County, while in Huntington attacked
Lev Huntington OF that city, with q knife,
and cut him eeverely Gcross tho throat.
Dickson was arrested and lodged in Jail.
The grand jury, which vas in session, re-
turned an indictment against him.
Colonel William A. Stuart who managed
the Greenbrier White Sulphur last season,
has leaHed the famous reaort for tho com.
ing season, paying $4,000 for it from now
till December |. His management last
year was a very satisfactory ono and at.
tracted large crowds Of pleasure seekers.
Paul Glenn met with an accident at
Mount Savage, which resulted in his
death. He was walking up an inclined
plane, on bis way to work, when he was
struck by m engine and knocked down,
two loaded cars passing oyer his body.
He was deaf and failed to notice the an.
proach Of the train.
The store Of A. Shun'ate 4 Co., at Salt
Wells, Summers county, was broken open
by five men. The clerk, who was sleep
ing in the store, made hts exit from the
building without being observed, and civ.
ing tho alarm , returned with several
friends and captured three Of the burglars.
The other two escaped.
The Injunction granted by Judge Guth.
RE restraining the Huntington CITY Coun.
Gil from repeating tho ordinance granting
the Q. 4 O. railroad the exclusive ana
perpetual right OF way over ell the streets
and alleys of the city, was heard III cham
bsrs by Judge McGinnis, who rendered a
decision dissolving the injunction.
A party Of old soldiers OF Upsher county
are organized for the purpose Of going up
in the wilderness Of Webster county and.
aearching for the boneg OF VIM. Littlefeld,
a Union soldier Of Company B., 10Th West
Virginia Regiment, who was killed by
Rebel guerillaa in 1851, and il successful,
bring out the remains for re.interment.
John Bragg, OF Summers county, on rs.
turning to bis home alter having been
away all day cutting slaves, found his
wife absent. He repaired to tho house OF
her mother, close by, expecting to find
hor, but she was not there. He continued
to enquire Of nc,ghhoring families, but no
trace Of his lost wife could anywhere be
found. Mr.. Bragg suspects th6t his wife
has been murdered.
A fellowship in the Royal Society CT
London, England, has been conferred upon
Dr.. Q. B. Blubaugh, OF Huntington, be-
cause Of some difficult and successful sur
gical operations performed by him, which
received favorable notice in tho medical
journals Of New York and London. It is
said there are but seven living Americsns
who are members OF the Royal Society and
Dr.. Blubaugh 10 tho youngest OF these.
The parsonage Of the Methodist Church
at Hunters Springs, Monroe county, was /
totally destroyed by fire. The dwelling
WAS occupied by Andrew Halstead and
family, who were awakened in time to co.
cape. Halstead succeeded in saving about
half hia household goods. The tire was
accidental, and it is believed was caused
by a defective arrangement Of the kitchen
.stove.pipe. There was no insurance upon
the property.
Jesse Lemons, an old veteran Of the
rebellion, q prominent member OF the VI
P. Church, aged about 6s years, the father
ola large and we'll respected family, and a
well respected and peaceable citizen Of
Upshur county, ia dead. He committed
suicide by shooting himself. His
body IA found by his son who
started out to search for him after he
did not return from q squirrel hunt,
grasping in the left hand about six inches
from the muzzle, his rifle, and near the
right hand lay q chestnut switch, or shrub
about five feet long, freshly trimmed, with
a little fork which was still astride OF the
trigger Of his gun. He had shot himself
under his chin, tho ball passing upward
through the roof of his mouth and lodging
in his brain. 81
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